George Cyril Allen

George Cyril Allen, who published as G. C. Allen (28 June 1900 – 31 July 1982) was a British economist.[1] Palgrave Macmillan, 1987. Professor of economics at the University of Liverpool from 1933 to 1947, and then at University College London from 1947 to 1967, he wrote on Japanese and British industrial policy.

Life

Allen was born in Kenilworth, Warwickshire. After education at King Henry VIII School, Coventry he briefly joined at the Royal Air Force in 1918 before studying at the University of Birmingham. There he studied under William Ashley, graduating B.Com in 1921 and M.Com in 1922. From 1922 to 1925 he taught economics at the Higher Commercial School in Nagoya, Japan. Returning to Birmingham, Allen gained a PhD in 1928 with a thesis which was published the following year as The Industrial Development of Birmingham and the Black Country. He became professor of economics at the University College of Hull in 1929, and Brunner Professor of Economic Science at the University of Liverpool in 1933. In 1947 he became Professor of Political Economy at University College London.[2]

His papers are held at University College London.[3]

Works

References

  1. ↑ Audrey Donnithorne, 'Allen, George Cyril (1900–1982).' The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. Eds. John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman.
  2. ↑ Silberston, Aubrey (2006) [2004]. "Allen, George Cyril (1900-1982)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54106. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ↑ Allen Papers

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